"astronomer" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The parts of the instrument go back to instruments made and used by ancient Greek astronomers.
- Galileo was saying the same things as an ancient Greek astronomer.
- Because the stars were actually much further away than Greek astronomers postulated (making movement extremely subtle), stellar parallax was not detected until the 19th century.
- Accounts do not survive but Greek astronomers must have used an approximation method based on interpolation, which is still used by some amateurs.
- Not all Greek astronomers accepted the designation.
- Some Greek astronomers worked out calendars based on the eclipse cycle.
- Hipparchus is considered to have been among the most important Greek astronomers, because he introduced the concept of exact prediction into astronomy.
- This may have been an attempt at explaining the theory of contemporary Greek astronomers such as Eratosthenes that the Earth is round.
- Others have speculated that the inventor was Hipparchus, the greatest of all ancient Greek astronomers.
- This article concerns the Greek astronomer.
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